Agile design processes are beginning to change the ways that
people create training content. While agile design appeared in the L&D
space only in the last few years, they took hold in the software industry much
earlier, starting in the mid-1990s. Clearly there is overlap between L&D
and the software industry, and if agile design works in both worlds, what other practices used by software
development teams could help L&D create better training and work more
effectively?

In this session, you’ll take a closer look at software development
best practices and identify the opportunities for L&D professionals to
learn from that industry. In particular, you’ll discuss pain points that
training teams encounter and find out how software development practices have
been built to address similar pain points. Finally, you’ll take specific
software practices (such as version control, code libraries, and “commenting
your code”) and adapt them to training development with examples from Adobe
Captivate and Articulate Storyline projects.

In
this session, you will learn:

About the similarities between your
existing processes and software development best practices

About areas where your processes could
be improved using techniques from the software development field

How to improve consistency and quality
when multiple developers work on separate, but related, content

How to avoid common issues when
multiple developers need to work on the same files

Jenny Nilsson

Owner

Varma Multimedia Learning

Jenny Nilsson is the owner of Varma Multimedia Learning, a custom eLearning design firm specializing in technical content and software and process simulations. Prior to working in instructional design, Jenny worked in the software industry for nine years doing project management, design, and quality assurance. Jenny has been surrounded by technology since her parents bought a Radio Shack franchise when she was nine years old. She sold her first computer at the age of ten and has been helping people learn to use computers and software ever since.